HLTH 101 Lecture : Poverty and Health.docx

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5 May 2012

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Relative poverty: being poor relative to those around, most impact on health. Poverty is, in the beginning and in the end, about not having enough money to live on with self respect, dignity, or hope. Unesco: occurs when systemically excluded from meaningful participation in economic, political, social, and cultural forms of human activity in their communities, denied the opportunity to fulfill themselves as human beings. Basic income (james mulvale) financial benefit that is universal, unconditional, and adequate to ensure a decent life. Negative aspects of basic income: reinforces traditional gender roles, loss of income if benefit is inadequate, loss of labour force attachment, downward pressure on wages. Ideological opposition: role of the state, role of paid labour. Poverty reduction is cheaper than poverty itself. Interested on effects of employment and divorce. People live healthier lives when they don"t worry about poverty. Implications of early childhood development for adult health outcomes.

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QUESTION 16

Match the social determinants of health to their 5 domains:

	Poverty, employment, food security, and stable housing
	High school graduation, enrollment into higher education,language/literacy, early childhood and development
	Access to health care, access to primary care and healthliteracy
	Access to healthy foods, the quality of housing, crime andviolence, and environmental conditions
	Social cohesion, civic participation, perception ofdiscrimination and equity, incarceration/institutionalization

A.	Social and community context
B.	Health Care
C.	Economic Stability
D.	Education
E.	Built Environment

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Mexico has two main government programs that transfer income to rural households. They are:

PROCAMPO, which pays a set amount per acre to farmers who grew basic grains in a base year prior to the elimination of guaranteed prices. Output price guarantees are not allowed under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.The idea here was to replace the price support with a direct income payment to farmers, to compensate them for lower grain prices. Direct income payments are allowed, because unlike price supports, they are not expected to affect production (in ag policy jargon, they areâdecoupled.â) Most PROCAMPO payments go to corn farmers, big and small.

OPORTUNIDADES, a conditional welfare program that gives payments to poor women provided that their children are enrolled in schools and in the local clinic. The idea is to combat poverty in the short run (by giving money to women, the responsible ones!) and in the long run (by making sure kids get the human capital they need to be productive and make an income when they get older). This has become a model for welfare programs in less-developed countriesâand even in New York City!

a) How would you expect each one of these public transfer programs to affect (i) inequality and(ii) poverty in rural Mexico? Why?

1. Which of the following cannot be determined using a production possibility table?

What combination of outputs can be produced.
How much less of one output can be produced if more of another output is produced.
What combination of outputs is best.
How much output can be produced from a given level of inputs.

2. Internal government debt is:

debt owed by citizens to their government.
debt owed by one government to another government.
government debt owed to citizens.
government debt owed to foreigners.

3. In general, budget deficits should:

never be run since they slow economic growth over the long run.
never be run since they crowd out investment in the short run.
be run on a temporary basis whenever the economy is below potential output.
be run on a permanent basis since they can always be financed over and over again.

4. If taxes and government outlays were constant and did not vary with income, then:

passive deficits would increase.
passive deficits would not exist.
structural deficits would increase.
structural deficits would not exist.

5. If the debt of the federal government increases by $10 billion in one year, then the budget:

deficit in that year must be $10 billion.
surplus in that year must be $10 billion.
deficit in that year decreased by $10 billion.
surplus in that year increased by $10 billion.

6. Which of the following would make the impending Social Security problem worse?